TGS TEAM TOGHETHER WITH TONI GARDEMEISTER CONFIRMS ITS PLAN FOR THE SEASON START

TGS Team together with Toni Gardemeister confirms its plans for the season start.

March 31th, 2014 After the interesting participation of Russian driver Dmitry Biryukov, at the wheel of a Skoda Super Fabia 2000 at Arctic Rally over the Scandinavian snow and ice, where he had a good experience in that national and international event, TGS Team ran by “Flying Finn” Toni Gardemeister has confirmed its participation at Rally Lavanttal in Austria. That event will be held between April 10th and 12th, with points for the national Austrian championship. In that important rally over tarmac the Finnish team will take part again with the usual Russian driver Dmitry Biryukov, driving the completely reviewed Fabia Super 2000 with the engine, gearbox, and transmission set up as a newly refurbished by the French company Oreca. And from his office in Valkeala, Toni indicated that Dmitry will carry out a two-day testing before the Austrian event. Later, they will await the arrival of the technical pieces for the Czech car refurbished to new by Oreca in France to take part in the Lavanttal competition. This Friday, Gardemeister will fly to Spain for an educational Driving Academy together with his Astra Racing team’s Italian friend, Luca Pregliasco. After this professional driving intensive course, next Tuesday Toni will travel to Estoril to join the team Volkswagen Motorsport in his job of “Gravel Crew” for his Finn countryman Jari-Matti Latvala to take part in the exciting Vodafone Rally Portugal WRC 2014.

Toni told us: “Next event for TGS team will be Lavanttal Rally 11-12/04 with Dmitry Biryukov. Before that event, Dmitry will drive a two-day testing in Austria”. “For the event Dmitry will get a «fresh» car. The engine is in rebuilding at Oreca and will come just before the event, also the gearbox and all transmission parts are newly refreshed”. “I will personally visit the event as well, but need to leave already on Friday since I will be going to Spain for the Driving Academy”. “Actually, next Tuesday I leave for Portugal for WRC event, so next weeks are quite busy”. “I will tell soon more info of other events, so keep on following”. “Have a nice weekend!”

LUSAIL (Qatar): Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah cruised through the final six gravel special stages of the Manateq Qatar International Rally to seal a convincing victory on Saturday.

A record-breaking 14th victory in his home event also marked a remarkable 70th MERC victory in the 211-event history of the FIA Middle East Rally Championships since 1984. His French co-driver Matthieu Baumel duly claimed his third win in Qatar and a career 18th in the MERC.

The success also marked the first outright FIA championship rally win for Volkswagen’s Polo GTI R5 that made its debut at the WRC in Spain last October and claimed WRC 2 success in Sweden in February with Norwegian driver Ole Christian Veiby. Customer Polos have already won national events in Belgium, Norway, Sweden and Latvia this year

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